By: Aldia Putra) *
The Jokowi-Ma’ruf government continues to accelerate the process of moving the National Capital to Kalimantan Island.
The relocation of the State Capital is an effort by the government to realize equitable development outside of Java, so it needs to get broad community support.
What would happen if in a city or region that we inhabit creates endless nightmares. A nightmare about social inequality, crime, declining education, community purchasing power is reduced, natural ecosystems deteriorate and the worst economy is paralyzed? Of course the country will immediately take a number of actions and anticipatory steps. Considering its citizens are being hit by distress.
It is not new if the transfer of the nation’s capital is the final solution because the first city has overloaded. Not only does it have a natural impact, but it touches on a sensitive domain. Jakarta, a city that has accompanied Indonesian steps hundreds of years ago, seems to be starting to age. Although the wheels of the economy are stretching rapidly, they still have an alarming domino effect.
The face of the city that should be beautiful, neatly arranged, with a capable management system, must be willing to be displaced because of the swift flow of urbanization. In order to meet the needs of labor absorption, factories were built. Residential areas, malls, to office centers. Which is more or less consuming land also erodes nature. The air that once felt cool, now seems to burn the lungs. With vehicle smoke, which every day passing by, factory smoke, to other pollution that makes ozone thinner.
Actually do not blame such large urbanization. The problem is, the belief in life in a big city of success is what becomes the background. When in fact it is far from fantasy. If not accompanied by knowledge, skills, mental capital is also impossible to survive. Logically, a new arrival needs a place to live, eat and all the equipment for living. Yes, if you can immediately work, if not?
Finally there arises an economic gap, which is work and which does not have the same percentage. Crime is rampant, people’s purchasing power is decreasing. Why don’t they just go home?
Possible mental burden that will be too big. Neighboring talk to a series of other problems that dominate. Although trivial, it is so tightly bound a number of people who had been part of the city of Jakarta.
Therefore the government wants to concentrate on solving this problem. The discourse of moving the capital of the State which has always been languished and only in planning began to be dismantled and then re-initiated. Considered, planned again by holding concepts that are more qualified and neat. The plan to relocate the country’s capital has actually been initiated by the first president of the Republic of Indonesia. So, nothing new if then this news is rolled out.
Refers to economic growth that will increase significantly with the removal of IKN. The government is determined to immediately realize its development. And the chosen city is East Kalimantan. A city with top geographical conditions and able to accommodate all the needs of government and citizens. Including the absorption of labor on a large scale. Both from local residents to outside the area.
The city with the best oxygen content in the world seems to be able to replace Jakarta, which has increasingly become increasingly rigid. Become the basis of a new economic movement that can be used as a foundation. Promising sectoral business development. What are the implications? welfare distribution. A new environment with potential welfare guarantees is certainly expected. Moreover, the availability of land has also been ascertained free from problems.
The Kalimantan Regency Government has stated its readiness to accept the mandate to assume the title of the new capital.
Many advantages of the city with the nickname of the world’s lungs that eventually became the destination of the new capital. One of them is natural resources, favorable geographical contours, minimal natural disasters, and other factors that can support the IKN development plan.
Therefore we are kind of suspicious of the government’s steps to overcome this neagra problem we must support. End the pros and cons, observe, guard and do together. So that the implementation of the construction of a new capital city as an embodiment of economic equality can be optimally optimized and uprooted all the problems to the root. Don’t let negative attitudes arise, many countries have moved their capital to a new and better future. It’s time to reflect on the experience, let’s make this IKN Transfer immediately happen!
) * The author is a contributor of the Jakarta Institute of Literature
